Wednesday, March 17, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechWeb) 17/03/2010



J&B Rolls Out Saas Remote Deposit Capture
Believes pay-as-you-go formula will be a good fit for regional community banks and credit unions unwilling to make a large investment in letting customers scan their own checks for deposit.
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Fed Saves Some Regulatory Authority in Dodd Plan
The U.S. Federal Reserve would retain some but not all of its oversight powers in the changed financial landscape envisioned by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd in a plan unveiled Monday.
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GoldenSource Releases Market Data Solution for End-To-End Data Transparency
The GoldenSource Market Data Solution unifies traditional reference data with more time-critical market data and offers increased data quality, consistency and transparency across the investment process, the vendors says.
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Practical Analysis: How To Lead In Cloud Adoption
Cloud Connect event shows companies taking very practical approaches to implementing cloud computing.
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CQG Connects to MathWorks MATLAB to Advance Automated Trading
CQG is a provider of integrated global market data, low-latency trade routing, and advanced technical analysis software, while MathWorks is a developer of mathematical computing software.
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Facebook Edges Google In Site Visits
The social networking colossus, now the most visited Web site in the U.S., could see a revenue boost.
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Global CIO Quick Take: IBM Joins UPMC To Fight Bioterrorism
Column about IBM joining UPMC's effort to strengthen United States preparedness in the event of a bioterrorist attack by creating a vaccine-development and production facility, with IBM providing IT infrastructure as well as R&D consulting.
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Intel Unveils Entry Level SSD
When used with a hard disk drive, the X25-V solid state drive can boost a PC's performance by up to 43%, the company says.
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Windows Phone 7? There's An App For That
Microsoft plans to compete head-to-head with Apple in the market for mobile application downloads.
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SAP Chiefs: Change Underway
Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe promise a significant advance in on-demand applications this year.
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Full Nelson: The iPad Speaks
Apple's maverick tablet device gives Full Nelson a rare interview. Its candor will surprise you.
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Guerra On Healthcare: Will Future Clinical Systems Be Modules Or Monoliths?
With lives at stake, the choice between a one-stop shop and open source supermarket isn't so simple.
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Global CIO: An Open Letter To Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
Column about an open letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggesting he drop his company's ban on iPhone's as a recognition that today's environment rejects that type of old-fashioned, heavy-handed thinking.
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Fed Saves Some Regulatory Authority in Dodd Plan
The U.S. Federal Reserve would retain some but not all of its oversight powers in the changed financial landscape envisioned by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd in a plan unveiled Monday.
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NYC Partners with Citi to Modernize Public Housing
New York City will renovate 21 public housing projects, home to thousands of people, through two deals that allow it to for the first time tap federal funds for them, the city and state said Monday.
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Google's Tim Bray Hates Apple's iPhone
Freedom, he insists, is not an optional ingredient.
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Global CIO Quick Take: Oracle & Iron Man 2 Seek Super CIO
Column about contest Oracle is running in conjunction with the forthcoming film Iron Man 2 in which Oracle will select a winner from submissions describing the excellence of the IT transformation that team has undergone.
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FCC Broadband Plan Ready For Congress
A preview of the National Broadband Plan reveals sweeping proposals the agency hopes Congress will support.
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Bacteria Trail Betrays Identity Of Computer Users
Raising new privacy concerns, research shows that the DNA signatures of bacteria transferred to objects by human touch can be used for identification.
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AT&T Adds Web Services For Feature Phones
The company is launching quick messaging devices, inexpensive phones with an online address book, messaging, and the ability to share photos and video with friends or social networks.
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Congress Targeting Defense IT Acquisition Reform
A House report recommends changes to military IT procurement policies ahead of possible broader reform legislation.
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Progress Releases Real Time BPM Suite
The Progress Software product combines Savvion business process management technology with complex event processing and monitoring capabilities.
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Progress Releases Real Time BPM Suite
The Progress Software product combines Savvion business process management technology with complex event processing and monitoring capabilities.
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Windows Phone 7 Gets Motion Controller
Microsoft also reveals phone's support for cameras, microphones, graphics, and more at MIX10 conference.
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Google China Shutdown Almost Certain
Reports indicate that Google.cn could go dark in a matter of weeks, news that has brightened the financial prospects of Google's rivals in China.
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